Above is a picture of the restaurant that we intend to use for the purposes of filming a large part of the opening sequence to our thriller movie. It is located in Ealing and the only foreseeable problem with the usage of this building is that it may not be easily reachable by the entire member of our group. However for the purposes of our film it is perfect because it is an upper-middle class designated restaurant with a very intimate feel to it. We will also be able to gain access to it easily because the owner of the restaurant itself is a close friends of mine, the only issue that I foresee as a result of this is that I would want the filing to be done in as little time as possible within the restaurant so as not to cause any problems for the owner. I will try to get a few

Script draft

Nice music fade from black to establishing shot of a restaurant

INT.RESTAURANT. EVENING

Man sitting with fiancé. Smiling and happily talking. Two empty bottles of wine on the table.

INT. LIVING ROOM. EVENING

Quick crosscuts if men getting ready. As the couple are eating, the men are cocking guns and getting ropes ready etc. do not show their faces until they have balaclavas on. They nod at each other and leave the house.

INT. RESTAURANT. EVENING

The couple still sitting at the table talking to each other, the bill arrives. They get up to leave the restaurant, JAMIE helps her put her jacket on. They leave the restaurant.

INT-EXT. CAR EVENING

SEAN

This is it man, pull over

Close up of door slamming closed.

EXT.STREET.EVENING

Cuts to men walking up to front door of house. They kick door in run into kitchen grab a woman. She screams but they hit her and tie her and gag her, drag her to the car and throw her in.

EXT.STRRET.EVENING

Cuts back to the couple.

WOMAN

I hate how unhappy your wife makes you. Why can’t we just leave together? Tonight

JAMIE looks exasperated but the phone rings, he answers.

VOICE

So you love your wife JAMIE? You shouldn’t have stolen from me. Bring the ten million to the docks tomorrow or she’ll be sleeping with the fishes. Don’t be late.

INT. DIFFERENT HOUSE. EVENING

Cuts to DAVID flipping close a phone, you see the wife trembling behind him on a chair held up the two kidnappers thugs, he turns around and smiles threateningly.

Fades to black

TITLES 

Synopsis Idea 1

Jack Lawson is a notorious felon, hated by many, loved by only his fiancé. For years he has outwitted his main competition, outwitting them at every corner and humiliating them on several occasions. Micky Dan and Billy Bradshaw decide they have been defeated for the last time and devise a plan to kidnap his fiancé and blackmail Jack Lawson. Now he has to chose between the love of his life or the only thing hat give his life meaning.

Which Types Of Thriller Could Appeal To Different Audiences?

Every Film that is released has to have a target audience or it will not be successful, many thriller films will have a target audience of 15+ or 18+, this is due to the fact that a film if a film is rated 12+ for example it will not be able to have the same content within it, for example sex, drug use and violence, this would make the thriller less scary and therefore flaw the reason it was first made.
There are many different sub-genre’s associated with thriller films and some of these are espionage, futuristic and teenage thriller’s, there are also many hybrid’s associated with thriller films such as comedy, erotic, action and science fiction thrillers, each of these different types of thriller’s attracts different audiences for example an science fiction thriller may attract an audience whom are fan’s of both thriller’s and other science fiction cinema, one such film would be ‘28days later’.

Saw thriller opening sequence

Thriller Opening Sequence

As the titles appear at the beginning of the Saw 1 sequence the lighting is flashing and titles including companies assoiated with producing the film appear after this silence and darkness take over the screen and the names of the actors and people working behind the scene appear, the sound of water and parts of images show with the remaining film titles, after the titles all end an image of a mans face submerged in water in distress is showing, the audience can hear a human struggling for breath when a man falls to the ground and he seems to be in pain, calls for help are herd as the score is still quiet and soft although it does build suspence, a voice of a man is herd but not seen(digetic sound) and the actor the audience can see says ‘who’s that?’ creating an enigima, the score picks up, lights are turned on, more is revealed to the audience, the score changes, sight is blurry, and then a close up of a dead disfigured body is seen on the floor, the score becomes very loud, a close up of a handgun, it looks like suicide, the two men are stuck to the wall with chains, screaming in distress and the score that appears makes everything seem hopeless.